[Buddha-l] Re: G-d, the D-vil and other imaginary friends

Richard P. Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Tue Mar 15 17:13:54 MST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:31 -0700, jkirk wrote:

> The god of the Old Testament of the Bible is distinctly not a god of
> universal love, or forgiveness unless there is some quid pro quo.

It is not so black and white as that. But this is not the place to
discuss such matters, for this is a forum for the discussion of
Buddhism, not for a discussion of the Torah, the Hebrew prophets, or the
wisdom books that Christians contemptuously dismiss collectively as the
"old" testament.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico



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